SHAREHOLDERS' AGREEMENTS AND STATUTORY LIENS

With digitized, customizable pact and preference share templates

The Book

The Authors

Ghislaine Bouillet-Cordonnier

Marie-Alice Godot-Sorine

Jean-Marc Moulin

Eddy Lamazerolles

The Preface

Embarking on an entrepreneurial adventure is never easy. It often turns out to be a complex and stimulating experience. Setting up a company, forming partnerships, organizing capital, shareholding, distributing profits or refinancing the company, guaranteeing control or planning its transfer are all crucial elements in the life of a company.

The shareholders’ pact is an essential instrument in building this ambition. It strikes a fine balance between comprehensiveness and flexibility, so as to anticipate a wide range of hypotheses without locking the company into a rigid straitjacket that would be detrimental. These agreements, along with the company’s articles of association, reflect the corporate bond, affectio societatis, a bond that is both economic and human, the organization of which involves a large number of parameters and variables to be considered.
Drafting an agreement is a complex operation, requiring the lawyer to combine excellent legal technique with strategic economic vision. This book will undoubtedly help you in this process. It combines the comprehensiveness of a scientific work with the relevance of a practical tool. It is also innovative in that, thanks to the QR code, it is associated with a digital clausier offered by the legaltech firm Legal Pilot.

Sensitive to the digital evolution of our tools, we are also aware of the commitment promoted by this book, two-thirds of the royalties from which will be donated to the Albatross Foundation, which develops sustainable development training for young people around the world. Ultimately, this book is an instrument that brings together the legal intelligence developed over the years by practitioners and the modernity necessary for the development of the law and the economic life of companies.

Foreword by Olivier Cousi, Batônier de Paris

How to use legaltech

Instructions for accessing the digital version of the shareholders’ agreement and preference share templates

Instructions for accessing the digital version of the shareholders’ agreement and preference share templates.

You’ll find a sticker on the cover of the paper book published by EFE, with a personal identifier / individual QR code assigned to each book. Holders of the printed version have access to templates for shareholders’ agreements and preference shares, which they can edit and personalize in Word and PDF format, as well as a large library of dynamic clause templates to complement the printed version of the book.

All you have to do is log in using the personal identifier allocated to you on the QR Code, which takes you to the url app.legal-pilot.com. Your login is personal and can only be activated by those who have purchased the printed version.

This link will remain active for 24 months from the date of publication.

The cost of the book with access to the platform is 95 euros (incl. VAT) + 6 euros (incl. VAT) postage.
Access to customizable document templates and clauses, without book purchase, is subject to invoicing for standard interactive online templates.
For more document templates or information, please contact the platform publisher: contact@albatrosslegal.org.

Shareholder agreements and statutory liens are essential tools for protecting and securing equity financing and, more generally, for regulating the operation and capital transactions of companies, whatever their legal form or size.

For this reason, this book is a UNIQUE project on the legal market, combining :

Legal doctrine, with Professors of Law, experts in corporate and financial law.
Practice, with business lawyers.
A technology, with a legaltech company, Legal Pilot, that generates digitalized agreements and clausieres, augmented and modeled according to your needs.

This book and its Legaltech are of interest to all those involved in equity investment, financial companies, lawyers, legal directors, notaries and chartered accountants.

This book covers

Recent company law reforms, including the ” PACTE Law ” of May 22, 2019 and the ” Law to simplify, clarify and update company law ” of July 19, 2019,
The consequences, on the drafting of partnership agreements, of the overhaul of contract law by the ordinance of February 10, 2016,
Changes in clauses used in practice in shareholders’ agreements,
Suggested models/examples of shareholders’ agreements and preferred shares available in the book and in digitalized and customizable form for 18 months from the date of activation of the Legaltech.

This book is also a UNIQUE solidarity project, with 2/3 of royalties donated to the non-profit Albatross Foundation, created in China, Singapore and France to provide free education in sustainable development for children. To date, over 12,000 children have been trained in 39 cities in China, as well as in Paris, Lyon, Grenoble and Forez/Loire. Albatross also supports the rural Albatross Arc-en-Ciel School. Albatross Foundation’s activities were presented at the Trophées Pro Bono du Barreaux de Paris and won the Prix de l’Innovation du Comité Franco-Chine du MEDEF in December 2019.